Trump – David Haldane

December 16, 2024

A Return to Old-Fashioned Journalism at the LA Times?

By David Haldane Dec. 16, 2024 I’ve been meaning to write this column for a couple of months. My hesitation was because it involves […]

November 17, 2024

Sexual Suffrage or Feminist Freakout?

By David Haldane Nov. 18, 2024 I can’t say I’m surprised. Distressed by Donald Trump’s recent electoral victory, some leftist American women are vowing to […]

June 12, 2023

Slaughter, Slaughter Everywhere

By David Haldane June 8, 2023 The headline was a grabber. “We had our own holocaust here,” it grievously intoned. The story that followed–on the […]

June 16, 2022

Activism’s Heavy Toll

By David Haldane June 16, 2022 It was everywhere. With few exceptions, every TV news channel in America livestreamed last week’s Congressional hearings in […]

February 10, 2022

Who Do You Trust?

By David Haldane Feb. 10, 2022 When I was a college student in Southern California, the name Ferdinand Marcos evoked visions of hell. Wasn’t […]

April 8, 2021

Crossing Borders

By David Haldane April 8, 2021 One of the happiest days of my life was the one in which my Filipino fiancé arrived in America. […]

February 18, 2021

Trump and Duterte

By David Haldane Feb. 18, 2021 I felt honored that she asked me. An old friend, a Filipino journalist named Effe Barker now living in […]

February 4, 2021

Boarded Windows

By David Haldane Feb. 4, 2021 The boards are everywhere. Driving along the nighttime streets, you see them on the storefront windows. Some stand nailed […]

January 21, 2021

Old Friends

By David Haldane Jan. 21, 2021 It had been nearly two years since we’d last met. Heather and I go way back. Sometime in the […]

January 14, 2021

Second American Revolution?

By David Haldane Jan. 14, 2021 I couldn’t believe it was real. As thousands of protestors converged on the US capitol building in Washington, D.C., […]

November 19, 2020

Blood Pressure: Why Mine is Lower in the Philippines

By David Haldane Nov. 19, 2020 At first, I didn’t believe it. “Your blood pressure is very high,” the doctor said, looking several degrees sterner […]

October 29, 2020

The Cost of Fear

By David Haldane Oct. 29, 2020 The meeting was awkward. It involved three grown men standing on the sidewalk of a public park. One of […]